By Graeme Bailey, Managing Director, Business Micros

“Business Micros supplies software to more than 70% of the window fabrication businesses in the UK. This, I think, gives us a fairly unique perspective in assessing how the industry has evolved over the past decade.

The industry as a whole has certainly shown itself to be strong and resilient but there has been an interesting divergence between those businesses which ha....

Since it was established in West Bromwich in 1992, Central CRC has always maintained a policy of investment and reinvestment.

This has seen the Duraflex trade fabricator spend almost £500,000 in recent years on new machinery and capital equipment and was the key reason for its investment earlier this year in the EvoNET business management software from Business Micros.

Alongside the Evolution manufacturing software, EvoNET gives managers a....

Throughout the recession, software specialist Business Micros has been encouraging customers to rent rather than buy its software in order to be able to maximise the benefits without needing to make significant up front investments.

Now, at its financial year end, Business Micros has revealed the success of its campaign with the number of companies choosing to rent rather than buy its range of manufacturing and management software increasing....

Simon, who is an existing Business Micros customer, beat Chris Bailey, Business Micros` Sales Manager, in a soccer themed Xbox challenge which proved a popular attraction during the two day show.

Graeme Bailey, Business Micros` Managing Director, said "The ....

Westpark Windows is an emerging Veka trade and commercial fabricator based in Manchester which prides itself on its attention to detail and the quality of both its products and its service.

At the start of 2009, the company, which has a current workload of around 150 frames per week, looked at the need to expand and realised it had to have better management tools to aid the transition and took the confident step to invest in the EvoNet ....

Business Micros introduces rental options on its complete software range

Business Micros is reporting a significant increase in the number of businesses choosing to rent rather than buy its software during 2009. For some, this may simply be further proof of the unwillingness or inability of many businesses to invest in capital projects in the current market, but for Managing Director Graeme Bailey it actually marks the success of....

The team at Business Micros are combining their shared passion for software and football at the G09 event at Wembley with a ‘Beat The Star’ competition on the Xbox.

Visitors will be invited to challenge members of the sales team to a game of football on the stand’s XBox machine and anyone who can ‘Beat The Star’ will win a prize.

These prizes will include free software upgrades and money off vouchers to spend with Business Micros. ....

Leading software specialist Business Micros has launched a new online customer support service accessible via its website at www.businessmicros.co.uk.

Customers who have a support contract with Business Micros can log on to a password protected area of the website and access answers to the most frequently asked support questions, as well as downloading the latest versions of software.

The new service is not intended to replace B....

Software specialist Business Micros will be exhibiting at G09 on stand 26. It will be demonstrating its products live at the show and running a number of promotions available exclusively to visitors.

Graeme Bailey, Managing Director of Business Micros, said: “We supported the June G09 event at Telford and, although the event was relatively small, we felt that we got good value from our investment both in terms of market exposure and sa....

Within four weeks of installing the Business Micros EvoWeb on-line pricing and ordering software, Chelmsford based trade fabricator Chester Windows has already signed up more than 40 of its installers to the system.

Managing Director Paul Foyle introduced the new software because he believed a large proportion of his customer base would welcome the option of being able to prepare their own quotes and orders online at a time convenient to....

Business Micros have launched a new set of brochures to support and promote its flagship products Evolution (Manufacturing & Costing), EvoSatellite (Remote Pricing) and EvoNet (Production Management).

The new brochures have been produced to provide an insight into the capabilities of these market leading products and how they will benefit your company.

Co....

Graeme Bailey, Managing Director of Business Micros, discusses the attributes that tomorrow’s fabricator will need and brings forward some case studies of companies already meeting these challenges to succeed. Improved operational efficiencies, better management information and true online ordering are just some of the elements that will help make fabricators leaner and meaner.

We’re in a digital age whether we consider television, mobil....

So how will tomorrow’s fabricator operate as we eventually move out of the recession and into a period of growth? Trade fabricator Glazerite, has already put in place the very latest software solutions from Business Micros to improve their operational efficiencies and are already performing well in the current climate.
Glazerite is building a reputation as a very efficient, forward thinking and customer focused fabricator. They have alrea....